Senior Salesforce Architect

Susan G. Komen; Remote; USD 102,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health organization is searching for a Senior Salesforce Architect to lead a dynamic team in creating and managing innovative Salesforce solutions. This role involves day-to-day leadership of Salesforce Development, collaboration with various stakeholders, and ensuring high-quality technical deliverables. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in tech leadership, with a strong background in Salesforce applications and a passion for promoting impactful health initiatives. This position offers a fully remote work environment with excellent benefits and competitive salary.

Benefits

Health, dental, vision insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible work arrangements

Tuition Reimbursement

Bi-weekly work from home stipend

Qualifications

• 10+ years of total work experience with 5+ years as Salesforce Architect.
• Salesforce Certifications (Application Architect or System Architect) required.
• Experience in managing multiple concurrent projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations on the Salesforce Development team.
• Work with stakeholders to deliver elegant technical solutions.
• Oversee testing and quality assurance for Salesforce enhancements.

Skills

Salesforce architecture

Project management

Creative thinking

Team leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Salesforce

CRM systems

Digital marketing tools

Job description

The physical location for the candidate selected must reside within the contiguous United States.

Who We Are

Susan G. Komen brings a 100% virtual working environment and you can work anywhere within the U.S. We are a force united by a promise to end breast cancer forever. For over 40 years, we've led the way by funding groundbreaking research, community health initiatives and advocacy programs in local communities across the U.S. Susan G. Komen is the ONLY organization that addresses breast cancer on multiple fronts such as research, community health, outreach and public policy initiatives in order to make the biggest impact against this disease. Komen strives to have a culture of passionate, growth‑minded professionals who thrive in a team environment, and work collaboratively to inspire greatness in others! We take an ongoing approach to ensure open communication from all levels throughout the organization. It’s encouraged to give and receive feedback to ensure two‑way accountability with a focus on continual improvement both personally and professionally!

What You’ll Be Doing in the role of Senior Salesforce Architect

Susan G. Komen is looking for a Senior Salesforce Architect who is passionate about joining a team of architects, developers, and administrators. The Senior Salesforce Architect is a hands‑on leader with a background delivering highly scalable enterprise‑level Salesforce applications and integrations assets. This person understands all aspects of the Salesforce.com Sales / Marketing / Health Cloud and the force.com platform. The ideal candidate is an energetic, flexible, collaborative, and proactive team leader who positively and productively impacts both strategic and tactical initiatives. This person brings a track record of delivering multiple concurrent initiatives, and leading the people, project, technology, and financial resources to build and maintain the Salesforce platform of a well‑established enterprise. This role will both lead and collaborate on projects with other development and technical resources, product managers, project managers, business subject matter experts, and others to design, develop, and maintain best‑in‑class Salesforce solutions and interfaces. The candidate must have a strong attention to detail and serve as both a leader and team player fostering a constructive attitude towards delivering business solutions. The Senior Salesforce Architect will be responsible for adhering to the SDLC to update the current online applications, as well as developing and implementing a usability testing process to ensure that new applications meet the company’s requirements.

What You Will Bring To The Table

• Lead functional day‑to‑day operations as part of Komen's SFDC Development team on a day‑to‑day basis. Serve as a point of contact for Marketing and Sales to provide maintenance, configuration, reporting, and training.
• Lead SFDC enhancement projects to support business needs. Work closely with Komen’s Marketing, Sales stakeholders, and various technology teams (Development, Infrastructure, Product Managers, etc.) to define and implement elegant, scalable, and sustainable technical solutions using Salesforce technologies.
• Deliver testing and QA of enhancements/changes to salesforce.com deployment using the enterprise sandboxes.
• Managing Marketing Cloud, Health Cloud, and CRM systems and administration.
• Creative thinking with passion for developing vision and strategic plan, and turning it into reality.
• Ability to develop marketing architecture and technical architecture artifacts of proposed platforms, applications, tools, solutions, and projects, and present to senior leadership in the technology, business, and financial areas.
• Lead architecture discussions, drive technical decisions, participate in feature development and product roadmap planning. Provide robust project management and share status on a weekly basis with stakeholders.
• Deliver multiple concurrent projects and contribute through all project phases, from brainstorming to deployment, and ensure Agile development best practices are adhered to across the team and deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements.
• Represent departmental SDLC and adhere to development and deployment best practices leading code reviews, code analysis tools, CI/CD pipelines, and site monitoring to ensure 24/7 uptime of a performant web experience across a variety of Komen web properties and our constituents.
• Passion in leading a team that brings Salesforce ideas to life.
• Ensure team provides Web/Application security.
• Create and enable best practices, governance measures, and patterns for custom and configured solutions on the Salesforce platform.
• Stay current on Salesforce releases, new features, product roadmaps and applications available from 3rd parties on the Salesforce AppExchange. Seek out ways to utilize SFDC to improve processes and productivity.
• Other duties as assigned, per need of organization.

We Already Know You Will Also Have

• At least 10+ years of total work experience and at least 5 Years of experience in architecting, implementing, and administering Salesforce applications.
• Salesforce Certifications of either Application Architect or System Architect.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Science, Mathematics, Economics, Physical/Life Science or equivalent field.
• Significant experience in eagerly and collaboratively working with a team of Salesforce architects, developers, administrators, and other resources.
• Demonstrated success in marketing program management and goal alignment.
• Skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with technical and business colleagues and internal stakeholders, and successfully developing coordinated marketing programs with their input and cooperation.
• Digital marketing expertise for acquisition, demand generation, engagement, and conversion campaign development.
• Extensive successful writing and editing experience across a variety of communications materials and media channels.
• Ability to formally document project and architectural requirements.
• Experience in planning, writing, editing, and production of a variety of marketing messaging including long‑form case statements, quarterly impact reports, press releases, sales proposals, and consumer‑facing marketing campaigns.
• Ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs while juggling multiple priorities, and allocating team members in the right positions.
• Energetic, flexible, collaborative, and proactive; a team leader who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical initiatives.
• Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Belief in the agile development process, and requirements techniques such as user stories, use cases, and informal modeling.
• Passion for Komen’s mission.

Preferred Work Experience

• Strong experience with Full Salesforce development life cycle - administration, configuration, development including object/field customization, deploy/test in sandbox, deploy/verify in production, and sandbox management.
• Strong working knowledge of NPSP.
• Experience with Data loading and data extraction using non‑Salesforce ETL tools.
• Candidate must have a strong attention to detail and must be a team player with a constructive attitude towards business problems.
• Candidate should be able to communicate (written and verbal) effectively with both technical and non‑technical parties.
• Candidate must be a self‑motivated leader who is a results driven technology enthusiast.
• Candidate must be able to make decisions quickly and work under strict deadlines.
• Can effectively communicate a vision to technical and non‑technical people.
• Experience working in a team‑oriented fast paced, distributed and collaborative environment.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, self‑motivated, results‑driven, and well organized.
• Excellent multi‑tasking and prioritization skills.

So what’s in it for you?

Komen believes in the importance of taking care of our employees so that in turn they can be committed to supporting our critical mission to support those impacted by breast cancer and to help find cures. Approximate salary $102,000 to $145,000, exact compensation ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job level, internal equity and budget. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate’s skills, experience and geographic location. Additionally, this is what Komen provides away from the computer:

• Health, dental, vision and a retirement plan with a 6% employer match
• Unlimited Flexible Paid Time Off plus scheduled holidays
• Flexible work arrangement in a fully remote working environment
• Bi‑weekly work from home stipend
• Parental leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• A culture of learning and development
• And so much more!

Komen provides a remote and/or home based working environment for all active employees. Komen defines remote as the ability to work from any physical location within the U.S. where an employee can perform specified work duties without disruption or distraction. Komen defines home‑based roles as positions that are required to reside in a specific market. Work schedules for both remote and home based are determined by the organizational needs of each department.

Susan G. Komen is fair and equal in all of its employment practices for persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, veteran status or sexual orientation. Additionally we embrace Diverse Teams & Perspective and we find strength in the diversity of cultural backgrounds, ideas, and experiences.

SORRY NO AGENCIES The physical location for the candidate selected must remain within the contiguous United States. In the event a move is expected to occur by the candidate selected, it must be pre‑approved by Komen’s HR team prior to the move.